Happening Now: The Exhibition is Open

source: Harvard GSD    2016年9月26日
An eclectic series of interpretations, over coffee. Moderated by Collin Gardner with Sara Arfaian, Caio Barboza, Sofia Blanco Santos, Eli Keller, Anthony Morey, and Alexander Porter. If we were to accept that “history” is contingent upon the depth and breadth of one’s point of view, where would the writing of history begin? What would it aim for? What would be its evidence? How could the validity of its iconic examples be established and their value quantified? While history writing is traditionally the domain of the historian, some architectural histories have been written by architects, either to accompany a specific project or to help elucidate a distinctive approach to design. Noting that the year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of two influential books of this kind, Complexity and Contradiction by Robert Venturi and L’architettura della città (The Architecture of the City) by Aldo Rossi, the aim of Happening Now is to heighten and amplify these uncertainties as we suppose only a practitioner has license to do. By highlighting a selection of objects in the Special Collections of Frances Loeb Library at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Happening Now seeks to place viewers in a position of immediacy to those artifacts and to various potential narratives about them. By staging conditions that encourage the visitor to encounter and interpret these objects, the exhibition invites unforeseen and perhaps wholly imagined historical possibilities: invented definitions, fabricated affinities, experimental and counterfactual chronologies, and speculative additions to the collection. Curated by Shantel Blakely, AB ’91, public programs manager, and Collin Gardner, MArch ’14 research associate, in conjunction with “Anachronometrics,” the final installment of the “Symposium on Architecture: All That Is Solid,” organized by Iñaki Ábalos, professor in residence of architecture.

Pardis Sabeti, "Evolutionary Forces in Humans and Pathogens"

source: Harvard University    2016年8月31日
The genome revolution has created unprecedented opportunities to study human biology, evolution, and disease, and is making it possible to carry out unprecedented studies in the microbial pathogens that affect humans. Sabeti lab’s research goals are to use the rapidly emerging resources to develop and apply methods to investigate natural selection in the human genome and study the genomic evolution of the microbial pathogens that affect humans including Lassa virus, Ebola, Plasmodium Falciparum, and Vibrio Cholerae.

Achille Mbembe. Technologies of Happiness in the Age of Animism. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年9月12日
http://egs.edu/ Achille Mbembe. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. 2016.
Achille Mbembe is a philosopher, political scientist, and public intellectual. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in 1989 and subsequently obtained the D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d'études politiques, Paris. During his time in France, Jean-Marc Ela, Jean Leca and Jean-François Bayart had a profound influence on him. Mbembe is a Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. He has also held appointments at Columbia University, Berkeley, Yale University, and the University of California. In the spring of 2016, he will be a visiting professor at Harvard University.
Achille Mbembe’s research interests lie in the social sciences and African history and politics. More precisely, Mbembe investigates the “postcolony” that comes after decolonization. He is especially interested in the emergence of “Afro-cosmopolitan culture,” together with the artistic practices that are associated with it. However, he has also critically explored the notion of Johannesburg as a metropolitan city and the work of Frantz Fanon.
Mbembe’s most important works are: Les jeunes et l’ordre politique en Afrique noire (1985); La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920-1960); Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie (1996); De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (2000); Sortir de la grande nuit : Essai sur l'Afrique décolonisée (2003); Critique de la raison nègre (2013). His seminal work De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (On the Postcolony) was translated into English in 2001 and published by the University of California Press. This work has also been republished in an African edition by Wits University Press, and contains a new preface by Achille Mbembe.
In On the Postcolony, Mbembe attempts to renew and reinterpret our understanding of power and subjectivity in contemporary Africa and to subvert some key assumptions of postcolonial theory. He claims that Africa is no longer the “colony” that Frantz Fanon described in his work Wretched of the Earth. The central gesture of Mbembe’s work is to identify societies that recently emerged from the experience of colonization and the violence that is the main characteristic of this experience. The goal of his work is to change the perception of Africa and to move away from the dead-end of postcolonial theory to a more dynamic way of thinking that will take into account the complexities of post-colonial Africa. In his interview with the French magazine Esprit, Achille Mbembe describes his book in the following way: “In many respects my book adopts a different approach from that of most postcolonial thinking, if only over the privileged position accorded by the latter to questions of identity and difference, and over the central role that the theme of resistance plays in it. There is a difference, to my mind, between thinking about the "postcolony" and "postcolonial" thought. The question running through my book is this: "What is 'today', and what are we, today?" What are the lines of fragility, the lines of precariousness, the fissures in contemporary African life? And, possibly, how could what is be no more, how could it give birth to something else? And so, if you like, it's a way of reflecting on the fractures, on what remains of the promise of life when the enemy is no longer the colonist in a strict sense, but the "brother"? So the book is a critique of the African discourse on community and brotherhood.”

What happens to our bodies after we die? - Farnaz Khatibi Jafari

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月13日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happen...
Since the dawn of humanity, an estimated 100.8 billion people have lived and died, a number that increases by about 0.8% of the world’s population each year. What happens to all of those peoples’ bodies after they die? And will the planet eventually run out of burial space? Farnaz Khatibi Jafari traces the evolution of how humanity has treated bodies and burials.
Lesson by Farnaz Khatibi Jafari, animation by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson.

Languages and Literatures: Cuneiform Civilizations

source: Wes Cecil    2012年10月4日
The first in the Languages and Literatures lecture series, this lecture presents the history and development of Cuneiform; the oldest known style of writing. Explores Sumerian, Babylonian and Akkadian literature and civilizations. Presented at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil, Ph.D.
For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go tohttp://www.facebook.com/HumaneArts

Raymond C. Rumpf: Short Course on Generating Spatially-Variant Lattices (U of Texas at El Paso)

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source: CEM Lectures   2015年5月29日
This playlist is a series of nine sessions on a computer using MATLAB and Blender to generate and manipulate spatially-variant lattices. The series steps the listener through every line of code in MATLAB to generate and visualize spatially-variant lattices, including saving them to the industry standard STL file format. Two computer sessions are dedicated to using Blender to open the STL files and to manipulate them.
It is assumed that the listener has worked through the theory lectures before listening to these. The website for the course is http://emlab.utep.edu/scSVL.htm

Lecture 1 (SVL) -- Introduction to spatially-variant lattices This short lecture introduces the concept of spatially-variant lattices and outlines why the topic is important. 25:13
Lecture 2 (SVL) -- Generating spatially-variant planar gratings 33:15
Lecture 3 (SVL) -- Generating spatially-variant lattices 47:51
Lecture 4 (SVL) -- MATLAB to CAD 34:15
Session 1 (SVL) -- Generating uniform planar gratings in MATLAB 19:46
Session 2 (SVL) -- Generating spatially-variant planar gratings 30:02
Session 3 (SVL) -- Demonstration of 2D Fourier expansion 46:20
Session 4 (SVL) -- Generating spatially-variant lattices 1:09:01
Session 5 (SVL) -- MATLAB to CAD for 2D Objects 18:39
Session 6 (SVL) -- Handling 2D lattices in Blender 4:44
Session 7 (SVL) -- Generating 3D Spatially-Variant Lattices 1:04:14
Session 8 (SVL) -- MATLAB to CAD for 3D Lattices 14:47
Session 9 (SVL) -- Handling 3D Lattices in Blender 9:24

(2016上-商專) 英文檢定(一): 梁彩玲 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續更新清單 (請按左上角選取影片觀看)

source: 華視教學頻道    2016年9月7日
更多英文檢定（一）（商專）請見 http://vod.cts.com.tw/?type=education...

How Forcing Positivity Can Create Despair | Susan David

source: Big Think    2016年9月6日
Think happy, be happy? Maybe not. Harvard psychologist Susan David examines the backlash effect of forced positivity in our lives. David's book is "Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life " (http://goo.gl/LQ6VWQ).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/susan-davi...

Transcript - I do have concerns about the over arching societal messaging that we are hearing, which is that we should focus on being happier; that we should choose to be happy and that we should think positive. Now just to be clear I am not anti-happiness. I, in a past life, wrote and 80 chapter give or take doorstopper book called The Oxford Handbook of Happiness, which really explored how it is that human beings can develop higher levels of happiness. But what I am concerned about in the current discourse is that I think what it is actually paradoxically doing is setting people up for greater levels of unhappiness. Let me explain why.
A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with and died of stage 4 breast cancer and she described her experience of suffering and loss as being exacerbated by what she termed "the tyranny of positivity." That she had so many people coming to her and saying just be positive; just think positive; everything will be fine. And what she said is those messages that a real impact on her ability to be authentically and in a real way with her experience. She also said that it made her fairly angry, that if it was just a case of thinking positive and being positive that all of the individuals in her breast cancer support group would be alive today. They were the most positive people that she had met, but they were not alive and that somehow the messaging that our wellness is 100 percent in our control simply by thinking positive can often lead to people who are suffering from illnesses like cancer to feel that they are somehow to blame for their own illness or for their coming death because they weren't positive enough. Read Full Transcript Here:http://goo.gl/Uhn26m.

Metaethics by Kane B

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source: Kane B    2014年11月20日

Metaethics 1 - Introduction In this video, I briefly explain the main positions in metaethics. I then outline two important metaethical problems: the is-ought gap and the fact-value distinction. 21:49
Metaethics 2 - Emotivism 40:40
Metaethics 3 - Error Theory 50:59
Metaethics 4 - Subjectivism 1 50:26
Metaethics 5 - Subjectivism 2 44:27
Metaethics 6 - Moral Realism: Non-Naturalism 1 35:46
Metaethics 7 - Moral Realism: Non-Naturalism 2 45:17

Dr. Emeran Mayer: "The Mind-Gut Connection" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月14日
Dr. Emeran Mayer joins us in the Mountain View Teaching Kitchen to present his new book The Mind-Gut Connection and to talk about how our gut and our brain are inextricably linked; how the microbes living in our gut play a crucial role in this dialogue; and what he recommends to harness this connection. After the talk, Dr. Mayer answers questions from our moderator, Liv Wu, and from the audience.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/lJiO8k
Moderated by Liv Wu.

The Truth Behind Tech Start-ups with Dan Lyons

source: The RSA    2016年9月12日
The truth behind tech start-ups with novelist, journalist and screenwriter Dan Lyons. What is the truth behind the Silicon Valley hype? Is it solid business or a hot-air bubble full of ‘wantrepeneurs’? When Dan Lyons joined one of the buzzy Boston start-ups that typify the industry, he ended up with a fascinating inside perspective. Lyons is one of the lone dissenting voices amongst the tech hype, and reveals the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with money and devoid of experience.
Watch Dan Lyons, novelist, journalist and screenwriter, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full replay: https://youtu.be/oO836hHCmZA

Indigenous EcoPsychology, Part Two: The Voice of the Fire, with Glenn Aparicio Parry

source: New Thinking Allowed    2015年11月26日
Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD, is author of Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature. He is the founder and director of the Circle for Original Thinking, a think tank based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Here he describes an epiphany associated with his participation tending the sacred fire during a Navajo ceremony. This experience awakened in him a deeper understanding of the depth of our connectedness with nature. He maintains that the human subconscious, itself, can be thought of as nature working through us. He notes that in the Blackfoot language there is no word for “I” or “ego”. He discusses the role of prayer as a component of indigenous ecopsychology, emphasizing “our reconnection with what has always been there, with what has always been the source of our consciousness.” He describes how this sense of connection has become lost in our modern educational system with its emphasis on specialization.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). His master’s degree is in criminology. He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities. His American Indian name, chosen at age eight, is Soaring Eagle.
(Recorded on November 14, 2015)

Free Will & Determinism

source: Philosophical Overdose     2015年10月2日
Do we have free will and what does this even mean? Is free will possible within a deterministic universe? What about an indeterministic universe? Does the concept of free will even make sense to begin with? And what are the implications for morality and the value of life? Could we actually live our lives on the assumption that free will is an illusion? These are some of the questions which are discussed in this program.
Free will is one of the most absorbing philosophical problems, debated by almost every great thinker of the last two thousand years. In a universe apparently governed by physical laws, is it possible for individuals to be responsible for their actions? Or are our lives simply proceeding along preordained paths? Determinism - the doctrine that every event is the inevitable consequence of what goes before - seems to suggest so. Many intellectuals have concluded that free will is logically impossible. The philosopher Baruch Spinoza regarded it as a delusion. Albert Einstein wrote: "Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion." But in the Enlightenment, philosophers including David Hume found ways in which free will and determinism might be reconciled. Recent scientific developments mean that this debate remains as lively today as it was in the ancient world.
This is from the BBC radio program "In Our Time". Melvyn Bragg discusses the problem of free will with Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge), Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham), and Galen Strawson (University of Reading).

V. R. Desai & Anirban Dhar: Ground Water Hydrology (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 40 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2015年6月10日
Civil - Ground Water Hydrology by Dr. V. R. Desai & Dr. Anirban Dhar, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction : Ground Water (GW) Utilization and Historical Background 53:08
02 Ground Water in Hydrologic Cycle (Contd.), Ground Water Budget 55:13
03 Ground water Level Fluctuations and Environmental Influence (Contd.) Literature 53:49
04 Ground Water :Literature/Data/Internet Sources 45:08
05 Occurrence and Movement of Ground Water : Origin and Age of Ground Water, 53:40
06 Zones of Aeration and Saturation; Aquifers and their characteristics/classification 54:48
07 Aquifer Classification (Contd.), Ground water Basins and Springs; Dorcy's Law; 55:21
08 Determination of Permeability :Heterogeneity and Anisotropy 55:07
09 Ground Water (GW) flowrates and flow directions; general flow equations 57:10
10 General Flow Equations Through Porous Media (Contd.), Dupuit's Assumptions 56:28
11 1-D Unconfined Ground water Flows; Steady Flow into Wells 54:19
16 Well Flow for Special Conditions; Partially Penetrating Wells; Horizontal Wells 54:25
17 Well Completion;Well Development; Well Protection; Well Rehabilitation; 54:04
18 Well Protection/Rehabilitation/Testing for yield (Contd.); Artificial Ground 54:29
19 Concept and methods of Artificial Ground Water Recharge (Contd.); Recharge Mounds 52:15
20 Induced Recharge (Contd.); Wastewater recharge for reuse; Water spreading 55:46
27 Surface Investigation of ground water (Contd.):Electrical resistivity 55:20
28 Seismic refraction/gravity/magnetic methods (Contd.);Sub-surface investigation 54:04
29 Sub-surface investigation of ground water (Contd.): Geographical/resistivity/ 52:58
30 Radiation method of logging (Contd.); Temperature/caliper/fluid conductivity/fluid 53:16
31 Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers:Occurrence, Features affecting aquifers 56:34
32 Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Bodon - Ghyben - Hergberg principle (Contd.) 56:46
33 Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Analytical Solution of Saline Water 54:20
34 Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Geochemical Investigations 55:47
35 Modeling and Management of Ground Water - Ground Water Simulation Models, Ground Water 56:22
36 Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Ground Water Management Model : Confined 54:48
37 Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Contaminant Source 57:30
38 Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Aquifer Yield and Ground Water Availability 54:50
39 Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Conjunctive Surface - Subsurface Modeling 58:28
40 Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Ground Water - Surface Water Interaction 55:03
21 Pollution and Quality Analysis of Ground Water : Sources of Pollution 53:59
22 Ground Water Pollution from Industrial, Agricultural and Miscellaneous Sources 53:25
23 Ground Water Pollution from Miscellaneous Sources (Contd.), Attenuation 57:15
24 Potential Evaluation of Ground water Pollution; Physical/Chemical/Biological analysis 50:36
25 Ground water salinity and samples ;Graphical representations of ground water quality 57:07
26 Graphical representations of ground water quality (Contd.), SURFACE/SUB-SURFACE 53:21
12 Steady Flow into Wells (Contd.); Unsteady Flow into Wells 56:19
13 Unsteady Flow into Wells (Contd.) 53:11
14 Unsteady Radial Flow in Confined and Unconfined Aquifers 55:02
15 Unsteady Radial Flow in Leaky Aquifers (Contd.); Well Flow Near Aquifer Boundaries 55:46

Mathematics - Advanced Engineering Mathematics (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 42 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd     2013年4月29日
Mathematics - Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Prof. P. D. Srivastava, Dr. P. Panigrahi, Prof. Somesh Kumar, Prof. J. Kumar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Review Groups, Fields and Matrices 58:15
02 Vector Spaces, Subspaces, Linearly Dependent/Independent of Vectors 1:03:30
03 Basis, Dimension, Rank and Matrix Inverse 1:02:09
04 Linear Transformation, Isomorphism and Matrix Representation 51:33
05 System of Linear Equations, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 58:34
06 Method to Find Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Diagonalization of Matrices 56:16
07 Jordan Canonical Form, Cayley Hamilton Theorem 1:00:01
08 Inner Product Spaces, Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality 56:16
09 Orthogonality, Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process 59:22
10 Spectrum of special matrices,positive/negative definite matrices 53:48
11 Concept of Domain, Limit, Continuity and Differentiability 53:10
12 Analytic Functions, C-R Equations 54:08
13 Harmonic Functions 55:19
14 Line Integral in the Complex 54:24
15 Cauchy Integral Theorem 52:54
16 Cauchy Integral Theorem (Contd.) 52:48
17 Cauchy Integral Formula 54:03
18 Power and Taylor's Series of Complex Numbers 54:11
19 Power and Taylor's Series of Complex Numbers (Contd.) 55:01
20 Taylor's, Laurent Series of f(z) and Singularities 55:12
21 Classification of Singularities, Residue and Residue Theorem 55:56
22 Laplace Transform and its Existence 59:05
23 Properties of Laplace Transform 57:40
24 Evaluation of Laplace and Inverse Laplace Transform 58:02
25 Applications of Laplace Transform to Integral Equations and ODEs 57:43
26 Applications of Laplace Transform to PDEs 57:26
27 Fourier Series 57:24
28 Fourier Series (Contd.) 58:00
29 Fourier Integral Representation of a Function 57:56
30 Introduction to Fourier Transform 57:57
31 Applications of Fourier Transform to PDEs 57:53
32 Laws of Probability - I 57:10
33 Laws of Probability - II 57:20
34 Problems in Probability 59:25
35 Random Variables 59:26
36 Special Discrete Distributions 58:01
37 Special Continuous Distributions 58:06
38 Joint Distributions and Sampling Distributions 58:29
39 Point Estimation 55:38
40 Interval Estimation 57:22
41 Basic Concepts of Testing of Hypothesis 54:48
42 Tests for Normal Populations 59:50

Somesh Kumar: Statistical Inference (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 40 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2013年6月11日
Mathematics - Statistical Inference by Prof. Somesh Kumar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction and Motivation 58:18
02 Basic Concepts of Point Estimations - I 59:28
03 Basic Concepts of Point Estimations - II 55:56
04 Finding Estimators - I 53:00
05 Finding Estimators - II 57:36
06 Finding Estimators - III 59:28
07 Properties of MLEs 59:21
08 Lower Bounds for Variance - I 59:08
09 Lower Bounds for Variance - II 56:35
10 Lower Bounds for Variance - III 53:35
11 Lower Bounds for Variance - IV 1:00:06
12 Sufficiency 58:36
13 Sufficiency and Information 55:30
14 Minimal Sufficiency, Completeness 59:48
15 UMVU Estimation, Ancillarity 59:05
16 Invariance - I 58:57
17 Invariance - II 58:24
18 Bayes and Minimax Estimation - I 57:53
19 Bayes and Minimax Estimation - II 57:58
20 Bayes and Minimax Estimation - III 55:03
21 Testing of Hypotheses : Basic Concepts 56:42
22 Neyman Pearson Fundamental Lemma 58:30
23 Applications of NP lemma 58:43
24 UMP Tests 58:46
25 UMP Tests (Contd.) 58:35
26 UMP Unbiased Tests 56:07
27 UMP Unbiased Tests (Contd.) 51:36
28 UMP Unbiased Tests : Applications 58:42
29 Unbiased Tests for Normal Populations 53:20
30 Unbiased Tests for Normal Populations (Contd.) 1:01:18
31 Likelihood Ratio Tests - I 58:15
32 Likelihood Ratio Tests - II 53:33
33 Likelihood Ratio Tests - III 54:31
34 Likelihood Ratio Tests - IV 58:11
35 Invariant Tests 53:38
36 Test for Goodness of Fit 55:58
37 Sequential Procedure 57:50
38 Sequential Procedure (Contd.) 59:31
39 Confidence Intervals 58:41
40 Confidence Intervals (Contd.) 59:14